AbstractThe impact of the use of mobile devices by means of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) technology to access environmental information in real time, provided by sensors str...
A fundamental problem in a large scale decentralized stream processing system is how to best utilize the available resources and admission control the bursty and high volume input...
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
Information about online presence allows participants of instant messaging (IM) systems to determine whether their prospective communication partners will be able to answer their ...
Karsten Loesing, Markus Dorsch, Martin Grote, Knut...
This paper describes the adaptive component migration facility in the Bifrost Location-Independent Computing System. We present a facility that allows mobile clients to selectivel...
Avneesh Bhatnagar, Evan Speight, Dan Crawl, Joseph...